Saturday, March 3, 2018

Animation History: March 2nd

Back
in 1886, Willis O'Brien was born and would eventually animate the first
stop motion puppet of King Kong which would premiere on this day in
1933!

This is from "Mighty Joe Young".

1922- A 21 year old veteran named Walt Disney after getting out of the
army began studying in the public library Edwin Lutz's book "Motion
Picture Animation and How it is Made" in the public library. In Kansas City, he and his brother
Roy persuaded the owner of a small chain of vaudeville theaters to fund
some cartoons. The Newman's Laff-O-Grams Company was formed. A
year later the Disney brothers would move to Hollywood and start a new
enterprise called the Walt Disney Company. (from Tom Sito's blog)